After a major uproar from religious organizations and from various sections of society, now it is the turn of the
Sangh Parivar’s frontal organisation for Muslims to protest against the ban on slaughter of bulls in Maharashtra.
The Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), a wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has launched a campaign and started collecting signatures from the Muslim community on the beef ban.
The memorandum readied by MRM reads that thousands have been rendered without a job because of the beef ban and therefore demanding that it rehabilitate the stakeholders who have been affected by the ban.
MRM began the campaign on Friday outside a masjid in Byculla and collected 1,000 signatures by the end of the day.
“We demand that those who have been rendered unemployed by the ban should be rehabilitated. It is not just the Khatiks and Qureshis (butchers) who have lost their livelihood, but also shopkeepers and people who worked in these establishments. The government must conduct a survey and chalk out a plan to rehabilitate them,” demanded Irfan Ali Peerzade, MRM Maharashtra co-convenor.
“There was no harm in allowing the culling of bulls. The Muslims feel persecuted as the decision goes against their interests. They already share an uneasy relationship with the Shiv Sena-BJP, and the fact that the assent for the law came immediately after the new government came to power has led to further simmering of their discontent,” said the MRM leader.
There is a possibility after receiving the signatures, the government may rehabilitate them if needed, said a BJP leader